Akshay Gollahalli
Software Engineer (C ) at Fisher & Paykel Appliances
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAkshay Gollahalli is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building C++ systems at Fisher & Paykel Appliances in Auckland while pursuing a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences. He specializes in machine learning and neuromorphic computing, with deep research experience developing and deploying spiking neural networks across cloud, GPU, SpiNNaker and embedded platforms. Akshay has blended academic and industry roles—teaching programming and information systems, developing disaster-management software, and deploying ML models to the cloud—which gives him both practical engineering rigor and research-driven curiosity. He’s currently applying those skills to a VR-based neurorehabilitation program that bridges brain-inspired algorithms and immersive therapy. Known for shipping end-to-end systems from low-level C/C++ to web and cloud deployments, he brings a rare combination of hands-on systems skills and neuroinformatics expertise.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer and Information Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer and Information Sciences at Auckland University of TechnologyJawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadSelf-Driving Car Nanodegree, Self-driving Cars, Self-Driving Car Nanodegree, Self-driving Cars at UdacityIntermediate, Maths Physic and Chemistry, Intermediate, Maths Physic and Chemistry at Little Flower Junior College, Uppal
English, Hindi, Telugu, German, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
uploader10
figlet10
command-line-interface10
deno-deploy10
html-editor10
interpreter10
exporter10
azure-cli10
visual-studio10
uppy10
typesetting10
bundler10
transpiler10
encoding10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
akshaybabloo/fs_rs
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
File system information CLI
Contributions:18 releases, 41 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 year 4 months
akshaybabloo/Spikes
Oct 2016 - Dec 2020
A Spiking Neural Network framework with SNNML parser written in Python
Contributions:11 releases, 112 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 2 months
pythonneural-networkparserspikingspiking-neural-network
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